1569 – 1570 The village burned, the castle did notDedina zhorela, hrad nie

The Ottoman frontier reached Gemer in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in 1569–1570 Ottoman troops burned Krásnohorské Podhradie. The castle on the cone above was not taken. That pattern is the ordinary experience of the Ottoman century in Slovakia, and it is worth saying plainly to anyone who has been told that the Turks destroyed a castle: raiding columns burned what stood on open ground — houses, mills, standing crops — and rode away, while the stone strongholds mostly held out. The people came back and rebuilt, because the alternative was to abandon the fields and the fields were the living.Osmanská hranica dosiahla Gemer v polovici šestnásteho storočia a v rokoch 1569 – 1570 osmanské vojská Krásnohorské Podhradie vypálili. Hrad na homoli nad ňou nedobyli. Tento vzorec je bežnou skúsenosťou osmanského storočia na Slovensku a treba to povedať naplno každému, komu tvrdili, že Turci zničili hrad: nájazdové oddiely vypálili to, čo stálo na otvorenom — domy, mlyny, obilie na poli — a odtiahli, kým kamenné pevnosti sa spravidla ubránili. Ľudia sa vrátili a postavili to znova, lebo druhou možnosťou bolo opustiť polia, a polia boli obživa.